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seld-

(adj.; prefix)
Grammar
seld-, sel-cúþ ; adj.
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Ðú hwerfest ymbúton sume wunderlíce and seldcúþe sprǽce, 35, 5 ; Fox 164, 17. Díglu þing tǽcan and seldcúþe, 39, 4 ; Fox 216, 13. Selcúþe reáf varias vestes, Coll. Monast. Th. 27, 9

Linked entry: -síne

hyge-leást

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Hé ætbréde his líchaman . . . of sprǽce and of higeleáste ( de loquacitate, de scurilitate), 86, 6. ꝥ se man . . . . on ðeáwum hæbbe módes clǽnnysse and forhæfednysse bútan higeleáste (hig-, v. l. ), Hml.

leóht-brǽdness

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Uton forlǽtan . . . gálnysse and sceandlicnessa and leóhtbrǽdnessa and ídele sprǽca and ealle unclǽnnessa, Verc. Först. 167, 6

un-sprecende

(adj.)
Grammar
un-sprecende, adj.

Not speakingunable to speakwithout speechspeechless

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Fǽringa sáh hé niðer sprǽce benumen, and þurhwunode swá unsprecende, Chr. 1053; Erl. 186, 23. Unsprecende forneán almost speechless, Homl. Skt. i. 3, 481. Ða unsprecendan cild, Homl. Th. ii. 116, 14: 50, 15

Linked entry: sprecende

ge-rádlic

(adj.)
Grammar
ge-rádlic, adj.
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Nú wé sprǽce habbað ymbe þ <b>bissextuni,</b> hyt byð gerádlic wé ápinsiun his síð, 305, 46. Nú habbe wé be dǽle gehrépod ymbe his síð, nú þingð ús Ꝥ hyt sý swýðe gerádlic Ꝥ wé gecýðon . . . . 307, I

munuc

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Nú wille wé úre sprǽce áwendan tó þám iungum munecum þe heora cildhád habbað ábisgod on cræftigum bócum, Angl. viii. 321, 26. Add

þeáw

Grammar
þeáw, <b>II b.</b>
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</b> add :-- Hit is þeáw þǽre sprǽce and þǽre áscunge ꝥte simle þonne ðǽr án tweó of ádón biþ, þonne biþ ðǽr unrím ástyred, Bt. 39, 4; F. 216, 17. v. cniht-, weorold-þeáw. Add

treówe

(adj.)
Grammar
treówe, triéwe, trýwe; adj.
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spræc to his onbehtþegne, to his treówum gesíþe. Exon. Th. 179, 29; Gú. 1269. Hié ne beóþ nánum men getreówe (ne treówe. Bod. MS. ), Bt. 7, 1; Fox 16, 17. Búton hé habbe twégra trýwra manna gewitnesse, L. Eth. iii. 9; Th. i. 296, 18.

Linked entry: trýwe

holdlíce

(adv.)
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Cf. hold; Hú holdlíce God spræc be his clǽnum þegenum, Hml. A. 22, 190. loyally. Cf. hold ; Befrán se cyning . . . ' Hwilce méde hæfde Mardochéus for þám ꝥ hé swá holdlíce hogode embe mé ?'

solor

(n.)
Grammar
solor, soler[e?], es; m.

An upper chamber, a solerflat roof of a house an upper room solarium, coenaculum

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An upper chamber, a soler Ic wilnige ðætte ðeós sprǽc stigge on ðæt ingeþonc ðæs leorneres suǽ suǽ on sume hlǽdre óððæt hió fæstlíce gestonde on ðæm solore ðæs módes until it stand firmly in the upper chamber of the mind Past. proem.; Swt. 23, 18.

Linked entry: solere

racu

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Þá wísan þe hé þǽr spræc þurh his race and sócne quot sententias quasi per inquisitionem movet, Gr. D. 265, 8. Gecyndbóca racu, gerecednesse geneseos relatum, i. relationem, An. Ox. 51. <b>I a.

ge-bannan

(v.)
Grammar
ge-bannan, -bonnan; p. -beónn, pl. -beónnon; pp. -bannen [ge, and bannan to summon] .

to commandorderproclaimjŭbēremandāreedīcĕreto summoncall togethercĭtareconvŏcāre

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Th. 149; B. 74. to summon, call together; cĭtare, convŏcāre Folc biþ gebonnen ealle to spræce all people shall be summoned to judgment, Exon. 117 b; Th. 451, 8; Dóm. 100.

Linked entries: ge-beón ge-bonnan

Lǽden

(adj.)
Grammar
Lǽden, adj.

Latin

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Ealle naman lédenre sprǽce [lédensprǽce, MS. O.] ðe on a geendiaþ all latin nouns that end in a, 7; Som. 6, 55. Ða gemetu gebyriaþ tó lédenum leóðcræfte metres belong to latin poetry, 50; Som. 51, 66. On lédenum gereorde, Homl. Skt. 6, 367.

mennisc

(adj.)
Grammar
mennisc, adj.
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Hé ásende mennisce sprǽce on þone heort, Hml. S. 30, 44. Englas geþafodon ǽr Drihtnes tócyme þæt mennisce men him tó feóllon, Hml. Th. i. 38, 27. Mennisce eágan hine ne mihton geseón, 598, 18.

óþ-feallan

(v.)
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Cf. æt-feallan. to fall away, fail, decay Gif hwam seó sprǽc óþfylþ if speech fail a man, Lchdm. ii. 288, 18. Æfter his fielle wearþ ðara cásera mǽgþ offeallen (óþ-, MS. C. ) Caesarum familia consumta est, Ors. 6, 5; Swt. 262, 6.

of-talu

(n.)
Grammar
of-talu, e ; f.

The successful defence made against a claim

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The successful defence made against a claim Seó sprǽc wearð ðam cynge cúð.

Linked entry: on-talu

menigu

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Ðæt mon ðá godcundan sprǽce ðǽre menigo (mengio, v. l. ) tódǽle, 373, 19. Binnon ðám weallum wǽron ungeríme meniu manna (cf. innumera hominum conuenticula. Bd. Sch. 623), Hml. Th. ii. 352, 10. Ðá gesomnode hé miclo mænigiu bróþra and sweostra.

wend

(n.)

a coursean alternativea case

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a course, an alternative, a case Ðonne gerecce hé, gif hé mæge, óþer twéga, oððe ðara spella sum leás oððe ungelíc ðære sprǽce ðe wit æfter spyriaþ; oððe þridde wend (a third course or alternative)ongite and geléfe ðæt wit on riht spirien Bt. 38, 2;

coc

Grammar
coc, cocc.
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Se kok ðe wé ymb sprǽcon, 12. Coca pullorum, An. Ox. 4891. Cocca, 2, 398. Add

cúþ-líce

(adv.)
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Bí ðǽm spræc Dauid swíðe cúðlíce on psalmum, swá hé hit oft ácunnad hæfde, Past. 375, 1.